By affixing a new battery cover to BlackBerry handsets, Bank of America customers will be able to make payments at retail places that accept Mastercard PayPass, from this spring.

BGR scored some leaked details on the program, which you can check out over here. It's interesting to note that this news has leaked out after an NFC-enabled BlackBerry showed up thanks to some leaked pics and video—I suppose RIM is keen to get innovating again, by the looks of things. [BGR]